2006 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 11 May 2006 15:28:29 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] New York tenant notification bill - for vapor intrusion risk
 
Assembly OKs pollution-notice bill
Measure requires landlords to warn tenants of risk

By Tom Wilber
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
May 11, 2006	

The state Assembly passed legislation Wednesday that would require landlords to notify tenants about risks from pollution like the kind affecting properties in Endicott.

The bill, authored by Assemblywoman Donna A. Lupardo, D-Endwell, would require landlords of affected properties to advise tenants about vapor intrusion -- a process in which vapors from subterranean chemical spills waft into homes.

The pollution, primarily from trichloroethylene (TCE) "poses a serious health concern for some of my constituents," Lupardo said Wednesday.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060511/NEWS01/605110342/1006

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